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1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 min.) : flv file, sound |
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THE LAST LETTER is based on a chapter of Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate. It is 1941. A Ukrainian ghetto has fallen to the Nazis and all of its Jewish residents are slated to be murdered. In the midst of the impending horror, the town's physician, a woman named Anna Semionova, dictates one final letter to her son, who is safe outside of enemy lines. The letter, with its detailed observations of daily life in a ghetto, reveals the fear, courage, frailty, compassion and dignity of this woman as she reviews her life and faces her death |
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Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 2002 |
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Performances
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Literature -- Adaptations -- Drama
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Literature -- Adaptations.
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Performances.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Wiseman, Frederick, film director
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Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) (Firm),
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